Veteran Martin Marietta chairman and CEO to retire
Stephen Zelnak, Jr. will be replaced by Howard Nye, president and chief operating officer at the construction materials giant. Zelnak gives up CEO job as of Jann. 1 and will retire as executive chairman in mid-2010.
Posted — UpdatedHe will be replaced by Howard Nye, who joined the company as president and chief operating officer in 2006, on Jan. 1.
Zelnak, 64, will continue as executive chairman of the board until he retires in the middle of next year. He has worked at Martin Marietta for 27 years, joining the firm when it was still a division of Lockheed Martin. He led Martin Marietta to its status as an independent company in 1994. He has been both chairman and CEO since 1997.
Martin Marietta operates more than 285 quarries and distribution facilities in 28 states as well as Nova Scotia and the Bahamas. It employs some 4,900 people.
Nye, 47, also was named to the Martin Marietta board. Before joining the Raleigh-based firm he worked 13 years at Hanson PLC and has more than 20 years of experience in the construction industry.
A graduate of Duke University, Nye earned a law degree from Wake Forest University.
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